Resumen

VILCHEZ MARTINEZ, Mayela  y  MANRIQUE, Beatriz. Management of Academic Texts and Thematic Expansion. Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales [online]. 2004, vol.20, n.45, pp.23-32. ISSN 1012-1587.

This research explores theoretical referents around the concept of thematic progression and the manner in which informants dosify informative content in order to achieve semantic integration in texts. Twenty-five post-graduate students participarte, and responded to a proposal to develop as an innicial classroom activity, the production of an expositive text. The results indicate that 84% of the student-teachers did not maintain the required thematic progression. Many constructed texts with no defined progression, and lexical resources prevailed. The majority did not develop the theme, but introduced it and then diluted it with a premature ending. The problems observed show the need to revise teachers teaching syllabuses.

Palabras clave : Thematic progression; typologies; textual production.